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QL2 Software and Traction Software have announced a joint development partnership that makes data extracted from the deep Web by QL2 Software's data extraction platform, WebQL, available to users of Traction's TeamPage enterprise Weblog solution for team decision-making.

Inxight Federal Systems Group, a provider of federated search, extraction, and visualization solutions for government organizations, has announced an agreement with LexisNexis, U.S., a provider of information and services solutions that integrates the Inxight ThingFinder Professional into its Enterprise Data Fusion System for enhanced analysis of unstructured textual data.

Vivisimo, a creator of software to access and cluster information for better search and discovery, has announced Velocity Universal Connect, plug-and-play connectivity to third-party search and content application connectors.

WebSideStory, Inc., a provider of on-demand digital marketing and customer analysis applications, has announced the launch of WebSideStory Search 4.0, a site search solution to automatically integrate site search and Web site behavioral data.

Inxight Software, a provider of enterprise software solutions for information discovery, has announced the general availability of Inxight SmartDiscovery Extraction Server (SDX), a scalable solution for text analytics in more than 30 languages.

The recent proliferation of blogs and other “consumer-generated media” has had a major impact on our culture—affecting the way we get our news, entertain ourselves, and especially the way we do business. These days, smart companies need to equip themselves to track their corporate image online.

dtSearch Corp., a supplier of enterprise and developer text retrieval software, has announced Version 7.2 of its product line for searching terabytes of documents across a desktop, network, Internet, or Intranet.

Feedster and Basis Technology have announced the integration of Basis Technology’s Japanese Base Linguistics module to support Feedster’s ability to search and index Japanese RSS feeds for their syndicated content service.

Inxight Software, a provider of enterprise software solutions for information discovery, and Clarabridge, a provider of text mining software, have announced an agreement to integrate and jointly market the Inxight SmartDiscovery suite with the Clarabridge Content Mining Platform.

I've been thinking about the skills that are no longer taught to the next generation of workers (and, I might add, contributors to my Social Security payments). Information-seeking literacy seems to be up there at the top of the list. With the increase in deployment of information to the desktop, and with the arrival of a generation of workers who have always had the Web as an information resource, there is a growing need to raise the dissatisfaction level of information users. Why?

Eyespot Corp. has announced the availability of the beta version of an online video editing and remixing community, where consumers can upload, edit, mix together, and share video clips, audio files or photos in one place online.

Microsoft Corp. has announced it has agreed to acquire ProClarity Corp., a software company based in Boise, Idaho, that develops advanced analysis and visualization technologies that work in association with Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) platform, which includes Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server.